Coming
up are four pages of written babble. If that sounds like an unappealing
read, let me attempt to coax you in with an alternate approach. The
text is
riddled
with
footnote-links that lead to more text but are actually an excuse
for images.
The point of movies is that they move, but they do so by sequencing
still frame after still frame;
and many of these
frames, viewed individually, have an atmospheric and
mysterious appeal of their own.

That being
the case, if you do nothing but hit all those links and look
at the pictures (don't miss the asterisks
*), you'll have a pretty
good idea of why I care about these films, and
the
text
you
can take
or
leave.

Footnotes
and asides riddle the text. For the person interested enough to follow
along, might I recommend
reading one or two paragraphs at a clip
then backing up
for the digressions.

***

The
site is now more or less static. It's unlikely that more movies
will be added
though I do like wandering through from time to time and doing little
tweaks to the text or adding screenshots here and there.